Issue: Whether the Second Amendment is incorporated into the Due Process Clause or the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment so as to be applicable to the States, thereby invalidating ordinances prohibiting possession of handguns in the home.

Court finds in favor of : McDonaldThe opinion concludes that the 14th Amendment does incorporate the Second Amendment right recognized in Heller to keep and bear arms in self defense

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Alito, in the part of the opinion joined by three Justices, concludes that the 2d Amendment is incorporated through the Due Process Clause.Thomas thinks the Amendment is incorporated, but not under Due Process. He appears to base incorporation on Privileges or Immunities.

Enough has emerged from Kagan's papers to make the National Rifle Association (NRA) very nervous. As a clerk for Marshall, Kagan wrote that she was "not sympathetic" to a constitutional challenge of Washington D.C.'s gun-control law, a law that the court overturned in 2008 in the D.C. v. Heller decision. In her confirmation hearing to be Solicitor General, Kagan reversed herself, saying she would uphold D.C. v. Heller, calling the decision "settled law." Still, Senators are likely to take D.C. v. Heller a step further and ask her about McDonald v. City of Chicago, a case the Supreme Court is likely to hand down on Monday that is expected to overturn Chicago's ban on handguns.Kagan will also face questions about a paper she wrote in the Clinton Administration that paved the way for an executive order banning dozens of semiautomatic weapons, though the White House argues that she was simply acting as counsel and giving advice, not creating policy. Another two memos found in Kagan's papers related to the Volunteer Protection Act, which, when it passed, shielded some nonprofits' volunteer workers from tort liability in certain cases. In those memos, the Clinton Administration worried that "bad guy orgs" such as the NRA and the Ku Klux Klan might also benefit from the law, though it's unclear if these were Kagan's words or an aide's as the memo is unsigned.

Waterworld , meets oil slickThe "Waterworld" actor has invested some $20 million and spent the past 15 years in developing the centrifuges. He helped found a manufacturing company, Ocean Therapy Solutions, to advance his brother's research in spill cleanup technology. In testimony before Congress this month, Costner walked through the device's operation—explaining how it spins oily water at a rapid speed, so as to separate out the oil and capture it in a containment tank

Screamers is being shown to world leaders — most recently Canada’s Parliament — as part of an apparent effort to advance support for a world prohibition on private gun ownership. It’s worth noting too that the most repressive United Nations members have long wanted to ban private firearm possession so they can more safely impose totalitarian control and commit future genocides if desired.Selling a lie?

WASHINGTON - A high-profile effort by President Obama and top Democrats to clamp down on special ­interest spending in elections has faltered, nearly six months after a Supreme Court ruling cleared the way for unlimited corporate and union spending on independent campaign ads.Action on a bill in Congress that aims to shine more light on such spending stalled after top House Democrats agreed to exempt the powerful National Rifle Association and other large non-profits from new disclosure rules."All restriction on political speech is repugnant," Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the gun owners' group, told USA TODAY."Am I happy that the NRA's tongue is not cut for the 2010 ... elections? Absolutely," he said. "Do we still think this bill is unconstitutional? Absolutely."

Anti Rape Condom ??Critics have accused her of developing a medieval device to fight rape.

"Yes, my device may be a medieval, but it's for a medieval deed that has been around for decades," she said. "I believe something's got to be done ... and this will make some men rethink before they assault a woman."

Thursday, June 17, 2010

He referred to the police shooting of Keaton Otis, a 25-year-old mentally ill man who was killed during a traffic stop after Otis pulled a gun from the glove box and wounded an officerIf they are pointing a gun at you, you can, dead is dead, weather the shooter was mentally ill, or a criminal, once they go for the gun, all bets are off.

PA to block residents from FL CCW?While the legal proceedings were still pending, Mr. Lentz said the man "obtained a Florida 'license to carry' by mail. He was subsequently stopped by Philadelphia police in a car with another loaded firearm. There was no arrest, however -- even though his Pennsylvania 'license to carry' had been revoked -- because he now had a Florida license to carry.

Sunday, June 13, 2010

Since 33% of the Homicides are not firearms related, we seem pretty proficient at killing each other, and since it is estimated that around 10-11% of gun homicides are legal intervention, of the remaining 90% if they didn't have a gun, would they have used a club or something else?

So in all the cities and states that do not have gun bans and even have shall issue CCW, why are we not seeing dramatic increases in gun crime? Is Chicago all that different from the rest of the country?

Cook & Ludwig have long been anti gun, and even when thier own research indicated that there were likely twice as many "defensive gun uses" than the Gary Kleck study of 2.5 million a year, they did a research paper to discredit their own study, since they didn't like the result. Please do not to confuse them with facts.

Mumbai, Here?Yeah it could happen here, but if and when it does it will not likely happen in a shall issue state, more likely in a city like Chicago, where they already have so many shootings, they will think it's a usual Saurday night

Man attempts to cut off armDr. Scott Ellner, Metz's attending surgeon, said Metz used his own tools to cut through his arm on Tuesday, after he smelled dead tissue. "He actually attempted to amputate his arm. He nearly did it, but not completely,"

Tell Congress what you thinkHouse Minority Leader, John Boehner (R - OH) (Butler County, West Chester OH), encourages Americans to speak out about their concerns on big government, huge deficit, the direction our country is heading, and anything else you want to make known. House Republicans are wanting our input to make all of this known nationwide.

Data released by the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) reported 1,016,876 checks in May 2010, ranking the month the second highest May for most NICS checks.

This figure, while being a .6 percent decrease from the 1,023,102 checks conducted in May 2009, is an increase of 14.7 percent over checks in May 2008.

But things do seem to be slowing, I was at Walmart the other day, and they had Fed 9mm, for $9.47 a box, I ask the clerk, how many I could get, and he said as many as I wanted, I bought 10, but the guy behind, me got one?

If you have small children, you have to secure your weapons, and most 2 yr olds do not understand the danger, since they had recently bought the guns for self defense, I highly doubt that they had taken any training, even a basic NRA course would have reminded them about child safety.

left my E2E Executive Elite, in the pocket of my Tru-Spec pants, and it went through the washer, and the dryer, and works just fine, I was kinda of surprised that the bouncing around in the dryer, didn't kill the bulb.

I'm a fan of paddle holsters, and therefore it makes sense to have a paddle magazine pouch, and while nearly all of the holster makers offer some type of paddle holster, very few offer a magazine pouch with a paddle.

Last year at the NRA meeting in Phoenix, I was shown such a creature, the B831, and it works with ether single stack, or double stack mags.

A couple of weeks ago finishing up a class, I found that one of the screws had fallen out, I contacted customer service, to find out how I could order the missing parts. Tina Parker at G&G customer service sent me an email saying if I gave her the address she would have the parts sent out, unlike one of the other holster companies did when one of there screws went south a week after I had purchased the holster.

Of course that's the kind of customer service we like, since emailing G&G, I have ordered 2 more mag pouches, one in Chestnut to match my new Stoner Paddle, and an extra one in black, the newer ones have an improved paddle design, and the parts they promised arrived today.

While the study does suggest a correlation between gun ownership and the rate of death from gunfire, the numbers do not correlate exactly

If one were to do enough research, and "cherry pick" the data, I'm sure that certain models of cars could be tied to DUI's, therefore if we were to ban certain model cars, or certain colors of cars we could eliminate drunk driving

Know how to effectively respond to an unexpected knife attack."Many officers have a 'Gun Mentality' and may not take an edged weapon as a serious threat because of the firearms they carry," says Nepomuceno. "When the suspect has a knife you should avoid going to the ground at all costs." On the ground the suspect could deliver numerous stabs into your side and cause you to bleed to death.

Baltimore, wants to be like ChicagoSo Bernard tell me how, banning guns will keep them out of the hands of felons and drug dealers? It's already against the law for 15 and 17 year olds to obtain a gun. Have any of the legal permit holders gone on shooting sprees? Why not just ban felons and drug dealers, that might go a long way in cleaning up Baltimore.

Liar Liar, pants on fireThe rifles were never banned, nor were the magazines holding more than 10 rounds (yes new production, but there were plenty of surplus magazines floating around if you were willing to pay the price, or steal them), certain features like flash hiders, and bayonet lugs went away, but a "post ban" Ar or AK is just as effective as a pre or post-post(?) ban rifle.

Chief, you want rifles? You can get them free from the Feds, or you can get them here: http://www.slr15.com/legrants.html, or you could allow your officers to carry their own rifles.

There are worriers, and doers, why don't you quit whining, and do something?

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